She was released in 2016 after serving two years in the Lucille Plane State Jail for drug possession. I remember asking my bunkie, ‘Do you think our brains are frying?'” Luna said. It’s terrifying just to feel like you’re cooking. As much of Texas braces through record-setting triple-digit temperatures, current and former inmates are describing dangerous and disturbing conditions inside their cells. Her jail is one of the 70% of units within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice that do not have full air conditioning. “Several times I told my mom, ‘I hope I make it out of here.'” “All of these women that were suffering with me had not a lot of time, and they feared that they were getting death sentences,” she said. But every summer, former inmate Maggie Luna remembers, the women inside worried their short sentences might take their life. AUSTIN ( Nexstar/KXAN) - In Texas’ state jails, the inmates are sentenced to just two years or less.
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